One thing to make note of.....LDS reserves a portion of full power in the blanking signal output for "sparkle" highlight feature. I am not sure if the other systems support this, but I would check. I was pissed too when I had about 750 mW testing and aligning the beam table. When all was set up to display through scanners the max power levels were around 600mW all lines. Then I found the sparkle feature and applied it and there was all the reserve power. It can't be defeated. Hope this helps........
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